Radio Liberty organization

“For years RFE and RL were operated and subsidized covertly by the CIA…”

“Many covert action programs initiated in the first few years as an adjunct to the United States policy of communist containment in Europe eventually developed into large-scale and long-term operations such as the clandestine propaganda radi…”

“The 303 Committee met frequently throughout 1967 and 1968 to deal with difficult questions such as how to provide for continued funding of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty…”

“In establishing the clandestine radios (Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty) in the 1950s the CIA acquired a means of directly influencing populations behind the Iron Curtain…”

“These proprietaries were eventually disposed of and placed under the aegis of the Department of State…”

“the transfer of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty to the Board of International Broadcasting with funding through State Department…”

“responsibility for their funding and operation was assumed by the Department of State…”

“Each functioned under the cover provided by a board of directors made up of prominent Americans who in the case of RFE incorporated as the National Committee for a Free Europe and in the case of RL as the American Committee for Liberation…”

“The CIA's best-known proprietaries were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty both established in the early 1950s…”

“92% of the employees were accounted for by three, which is the JB Greed, TP Tonic, and QR Active, which was basically a total of 13. TP Tonic and QR Active were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. So they had about 3,000 doing fake reporti…”

“Agency financial support for Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, both sizable proprietaries, was terminated in 71, and responsibility for their funding was assumed by Department of State, which means it went nowhere. Just change of ownersh…”

“Agency financial support for Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, both sizable proprietaries, was terminated in 71, and responsibility for their funding was assumed by Department of State, which means it went nowhere. Just change of ownersh…”

“licenses. The ownership of companies was discussed with State Department Office of Munitions Control and Bureau of Alcohol, Tax, and Firearms, ATF. So I found that really, really interesting because you know that they're shipping munitions …”

“Both Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation, which passed Congress in 1972, providing the radios with $36 million the first year. The funds were administered by the Secretary of State, and all CIA connections were cut, except the Sec…”

“Nixon supported continuing those funds and new funds were openly appropriated by Congress for two years. But by January of 1971, Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey detailed the secret CIA funding of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and …”

“There was little hope in 1969 that the public attitude toward covert operations would ever be as permissive as when Nixon had been vice president, which of course was before the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam, which kind of soured everybody to tho…”

“to the board of international broadcasting with funding through the state department i.e it's still part of the cia we're just pretending that it's not um continuing liquidation of the assets of air america while at the same time we're crea…”

“So he retires as a Marine Corps reserve as a colonel in 1973. So he was in the reserves apparently the whole time, which is interesting to me. From 90 to 94, he's a member of oversight of the Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. So this who…”

“cohesive propaganda effort using both overt and covert means directed against the Soviet Union. The program was not altogether successful. Levin's personal style of leadership alienated most of the Russians and Ukrainians. An associate radi…”

“talked about that Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of those things, the U.S. Information Agency, were all CIA fronts. So there's no useful purpose for the American people to know that they're being propagandized by their government…”